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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Folios of old manuscripts containing recipes
of colour making.
We have said earlier that there is a large body of manuscripts or stray folios in certain Jain repositories which describe old recipes of colour manufacture and admixtures. Most of them, that are being dealt with here are in Rajasthani language of the 18th and 19th centuries. This material is being presented here with the kind courtery of Shri Laxmanbhai Bhojak of Ahmedabad. Who has been a guiding force behind this study. Document No. 1: Two Stray folios Rajasthani Gujarati language ca.
18th cent. A.D.
Folio 1. The first is a kind of a chart or a table divided vertically in to 20 columns and herizontally in to 5 rows of written material giving the name of the ingradient above and its corresponding numerical below.
Folio 2. The second folio (apparently belonging to the same manuscripts) has the instructions to add two different numbers to get the desired colour or its shade. In this way the composer or the writer has made it easy for us to prepare desired colour or colour shade.
There is also a comprehensive list of materials or ingradients used in this chart (see appendix 1) Document No. 2: A single manuscript page of a gutk a manu
script; Rajasthani/Gujarati.ca - 18th/19th cent. A.D.
This small folio describes the recipe of making Alta colour or juice. It starts with re f u " i.e. This is the method of
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